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05/07/2008
Memoir not too juicy
No one doubts she's hard-driving. But she has never learned to drive, Barbara Walters reveals in her new memoir, Audition .
05/05/2008
Campaign tale takes new trail
No, it's not a how-to manual. It's a novel about a campaign that hatches an unconventional strategy for capturing the White House.
Youth writer skews older
Stephenie Meyer, a sensation with teens because of her million-selling Twilight Saga vampire novels, wonders how readers will feel about her first adult book, The Host .
04/21/2008
Chinese food is more than chopsticks
For folks addicted to reading and Chinese restaurants, it is difficult to imagine a more satisfying book than The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer 8. Lee.
MEET THE AUTHOR
Herschel Walker will sign Breaking Free tomorrow at 7 p.m. at Borders, Preston Road at Royal Lane. Tickets, available at 9 a.m., are required. He'll also appear at 2 p.m. Saturday at Sam's Club, 1213 Market Place Blvd., Irving.
04/14/2008
Handey still thinking
 Author Jack Handey's friends call him unpretentious, sweet and bearing no obvious bloodlust for Martians. Associated Press Jack Handey thinks dinosaurs are overrated. "A world ruled by dinosaurs? It didn't make any sense! I could understand a world where dinosaurs had some say – but not rule," he says.
Rowling set to defend 'Potter'
NEW YORK – Author J.K. Rowling is eager to tell a judge this week that one of her biggest fans is in fantasyland if he believes a Harry Potter encyclopedia he plans to publish does not violate her copyrights.
04/07/2008
Prof's verses rule
Tony Hoagland, a poetry professor at the University of Houston, has been chosen the second winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize – for writers of great talent but little fame.
03/31/2008
Read between the legs a bit
LONDON – Good advice? Maybe. The oddest book title of 2007 – that's official.
03/10/2008
No lack of problems here
Kevin Keck takes us along as he confronts an impressively diverse parade of personal obstacles: obsessive-compulsive disorder, drugs and alcohol, an inability to hold down a job, a mother with her own psychological problems, his grandmother's dementia and plenty more issues.
Island tales win big honors
Stories from the island of Hispaniola were winners Thursday at the National Book Critics Circle awards: Dominican-American Junot Diaz took the fiction prize for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao , and Edwidge Danticat of Haiti was cited in autobiography for Brother, I'm Dying .
03/03/2008
Short books gain appeal
As he prepared a biography of Edgar Allan Poe, author Peter Ackroyd read through more than 20 volumes of Poe's work and filled two file cabinet drawers with notes – more information than the most devoted fan could absorb in a lifetime.
Oprah's pick is a big hit
Even for an Oprah Winfrey book pick, A New Earth has been a sensation.
02/25/2008
University finds Frost 'unplugged'
HANOVER, N.H. – Sixty years after New England poet Robert Frost sat down with Dartmouth College students for an off-the-record lecture, the four-time Pulitzer Prize winner's words to them are being published for the first time.
MEET THE AUTHOR
Philipa Gregory will discuss The Other Boleyn Girl tonight at 7 at Borders, Preston Road at Royal Lane.
02/18/2008
Racial tensions simmer in Dagoberto Gilb's 'The Flowers'
Dagoberto Gilb's new novel, The Flowers, is a tightly woven narrative about a boy coming of age in a community bubbling with racial tension. It's beautifully rendered in part because Gilb nails the voice of 15-year-old narrator Sonny Bravo with pinpoint accuracy.
An e-book sensation, thanks to Oprah
The Oprah touch doesn't just work for traditional books.
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